SegaXtreme

I've been arguing with a friend of mine about wether the Zelda games are RPG's or Adventures.

Personally I'd say it's an adventure, because:

• The game is not turnbased (I know, not all rpg's are, but most are turnbased)
• The game is linear (you don't have the freedom to do anything in the order you want to do it)
• You have very limited freedom of equipping your character
• You have only one character
• You have very limited serious side quests
• The game hardly depends on choises you make (the storyline doesn't have any forks in it)
• Only one possible ending

I know, each of these points never makes a game an RPG or Adventure on itself. But I'd say that a game has to have at least some of these points to qualify as an RPG.

I thought I'd post it here since all of us here are both Zelda and RPG <-> Adventure experts 🙂 Please post your thoughts on this matter!